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Abstract— Power quality is one of the major area of concern There are the different topologies are used in
in recent forty years both in transmission and distribution multilevel inverter such as diode clamp, flying capacitor,
system. The major fault occur in the system are voltage sag, cascade multilevel inverter. The diode clamp method split
voltage swell, harmonics, voltage fluctuation etc. There is dc bus in required levels & bulk capacitor connected in
various custom power devices are used to compensate such series. Flying capacitor topology is more flexible but
problems. In this paper we have discussed on the Multi-level
inverter based DVR which is used to protect the sensitive
controlling method is more complex for high power lines.
equipment such as computer, printer from line fault such as Cascade inverter used the separate dc source so that
voltage sag. The implementation of the DVR in the higher number of voltage levels can produce [3].
distribution system is based on the multilevel inverter
topology against voltage sag. The system is used for the For operation of DVR in the different fault
distribution system for single phase 230V supply. This paper condition, the simulink modal is made of 5-level
represent, the Simulink modal of multi level inverter based multilevel inverter based DVR, where the POD control
DVR system which can compensate the voltage sag. All techniques are used & Diode clamp topology has been
result are shown in the MATLAB software and Result implemented [4].
shown that, the multilevel inverter can compensate voltage
sag problem more effectively & improve voltage quality.
The cascade H-bridge based inter-line dynamic
voltage restorer show that its performance is based on the
Keywords-Power Quality,Multilevel inverter[MLI],Voltage load power factor, While DVR is connected in series with
sag, DVR,Simulation model, Matlab Simulation. the distribution feeder. The two cascade H- bridge
I. INTRODUCTION inverter injects voltage with low distortion [5].The results
are observe in PSCAD software.
The common characteristics in most of the
electronics apparatus is they are very sensitive to the There are different compensation techniques are
voltage variation. Now-a-days the use of power used for injection of voltage in case of DVR such as pre
electronics devices, computer, printer etc. can create sag, in phase, phase advance compensation. The voltage
power quality issue. Among those power quality issue the magnitude is consider for injection of the voltage in the
most of them is related to the voltage such as voltage sag, system [6].
voltage swell etc. As there are many custom power
devices has been used to compensate such problems. Simulation modal has been done for the closed
Dynamic voltage restorer is one of the device that can be loop and open loop system, where the PQ theory has been
capable of generating and absorbing active and reactive used to generate reference voltage [7]. Z source converter
power in distribution system against the voltage has been implemented for the various power conversions
sag[1].For that dc-dc converter is used, by adjusting the for that impedance circuit presented [8]. The simulink is
dc-dc input voltage according to range of voltage sag. So done to show its effectiveness.
the control technique is effective & simple.
Dynamic voltage restorer is one of the device
Voltage sag are the frequent problem in distribution that can be capable of generating and absorbing active and
system. So for that FACT devices such as static series reactive power in distribution system against the voltage
compensator can be used [2]. These device inject the sag. From using Multi-level inverter, the output voltage
missing voltage in the distribution system. waveform obtained is in staircase waveform but at the
same time increased in voltage levels can create circuit
In recent year, cascade multilevel inverter has complexity. Multilevel inverter based DVR provide the
gained attention because of its advantages in high voltage compensation of the voltage sag with less voltage stress.
& also it has low harmonic distortion. The number of So due to that harmonic profile of the system gets
stages has been used in case of multilevel inverter. The improved.
output waveform is in staircase form, that can be 3-level,
5-level [3].
II. DVR & MULTILEVEL INVERTER 2) Multi-level inverter using flying capacitor:
i) DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORER: The building block of capacitor clamp circuit is known as
the flying capacitor multilevel inverter. By applying the
The power quality issue like voltage sag, voltage swell,
suitable combination of capacitor the balancing of
Harmonics was more intense disturbances. To avoid such
disturbances the various custom power devices are used. capacitor is possible. For this method the number of bulky
DVR is one of the devices used to compensate the voltage capacitor clamp are required.
sag. It is device that is connected between the source and
load at point of common coupling, to regulate load side 3) Diode clamp multilevel inverter:
voltage.
This type of inverter uses the diode to produce the
different voltage levels. It is having disadvantage of the
real power flow control is difficult to do also for higher
number of voltage levels diode clamp required in large
number.
REFERENCES
[1]Smitha Sethumadhavan, “Hardware
Implementation of MLI Based Dynamic Voltage
Restorer’’International Journal of Science and
Research (IJSR) ISSN (Online): 2319-7064.
Fig.4.Voltage sag in the system
Fig.4. shows voltage sag in the system. The duration of [2]Dr.A.Jaya Laxmi, Dr. K. Uma Rao, “Hardware
the voltage sag is around 0.4 second to 0.8 second. In this Implementation Of Single Phase Dynamic Voltage
period DVR operate in friction of second to compensate Restorer”,16th National Power System
the sag. Conferances15th-17th December, 2010
[3]D.MohanReddy,T.Gowrimanoher, “ Mitigation
of interruption and voltage sag, swell using cascade
multilevel inverter based dvr’’, International Journal
of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research
(IJEEER)
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